Comments on: Clearing up the confusion over outsourcing

Forrester Research's John McCarthy ignited a firestorm when he issued a report on the number of U.S. jobs that would wind up overseas. Only one problem: The press botched the story.

[waynehapp]

Apologies from Wal-Mart

To whom it may concern. Wal-Mart deeply regrets that it only added 32,000 floor sweepers this past month. We were aiming for 230,000.

To help make up the difference next month. IBM has agreed to lay off all of it's US born workers.

[emc2]

tech outsourcing evangelist

Let's see, a guy that evangelisizes outsourcing in the areas of the greatest US economic strength and training people in third world countries to do the exact same job for a fraction of the salary.

If I didn't know any better, I would say this John McCarthy guy is getting paided off by some Indian nationalist organization to making up phony projections and evangelize outsourcing American Service Jobs to India.

Honestly, I just don't see the motivation of why a US national would put out this type of propaganda unless he was getting paid off by a foreign government or organization with ulterior motives that are not in the best interest of the people of the US.


Just about every report or article I've seen on the benifits of outsouces are written by an Indian Nationals. So why should this type of report be any different? Theren't something smelly going on under the table I would bet.

[waynehapp]

Excuse Me!

Me first and nothing for you is capitalism baby!
Love it or leave it.

We should hold American economic traitors

[waynehapp]

Dead Chicken

Hey Kids

Wonder why the job market resembles a dead checken!

Who ya gonna sell wide screen TV's to when eveyone is flipping burgers for people working at Homedepot?

exactly!

Who's gonna buy cars and homes on a 'sweep the floor' salary?

i for one would call for the oursourcing of executive level jobs to india. let's see how fast outsourcing gets quashed if ceo/cfo/board/and other exec jobs are outsourced. how much you wanna bet they'd be donating to the coffers of the politicians to cry 'unfair trade' or some crap if it was THEIR jobs at stake.

i'm sick and tired of supporting the wealth of others. maybe they can bleed the indians/chinese for cheap labor. give it a couple more years...and when the middle class dries up and the indian/chinese can't afford that $50k SUV...i'll be laughing as their companies crash and burn!

[hackingbear]

but do you know...

I'm from the U.S. and sitting in an office in China to type this comment.

What you wish have come true already.

Many CEOs/CTOs/CFOs and VPs in high-tech companies in China are from the U.S. Many are making more money than they did in the same positions in U.S. (and they don't need to pay either U.S, or China income tax because their company is registered in Carribean.)

Hmm... wondering why you are not a CxO?

That's the way the world has been:

Americans replaced British worker's jobs 200 years ago.

Computer programs have replaced many workers for a few decades.

Today, programmers are replaced by lower-cost Indidian programmers.

Tomorrow, the jobs will be outsourced to Africa. (Should that be happening earlier? They are still in starvation.)

Maybe you should just throw away your $50 made-in-China DVD player and buy a $300 one (but that's made in Japan, still not U.S.) However, before doing that, please read the news.com story that Chinese DVD player is now making only $1 per player and pay most of the money to U.S. chip makers for rolayty fees.

[lewissalem]

There is no "confusion" over outsourcing.

..what a bunch of crap. there is no confusion. I started working in this field in 1998, and I'm already obsolete!

[David Arbogast]

of course

Technology changed faster than you did.
Computers made in 1998 are obsolete. Why shouldn't somebody who's education ended in 1998 also be obsolete? Learn more. Move on.